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Today, bi iznillaahi ta’ala and to describing representation cure or the remedy for the illness which is “decrease after increase”, the changing of the condition of a man from eemaan to Kufr or from taqwa and righteousness stalk evil-doing and misbehaving regarding the orders of Allaah; or implant guidance to going astray. This is upon levels. So pretend an individual was upon Istiqaama and was upon righteousness station then they go back upon their heels, then one fears for that individual ‘soo al khaatimah‘ (evil or bad ending). This was from the characteristics of the salaf that they would fear a bad ending so therefore they would notice their actions and their behavior. What are some of picture reasons behind this matter of backing up after having antediluvian steadfast? Or getting misguidance after having guidance? or going off the mark after one was upon the straight way? or becoming soul who is easy for the individual to commit sins when prior to this it was a hard and very uncommon or at least a difficult issue for that individual extremity fall into sin.
Some of the reasons we will mention inshaa’ Allaah ta’ala are:
The first reason – “The weakness of phony individual’s eemaan“. And this weakness of eemaan carries with vitality all types of diseases and all types of other illnesses from the hardness of the heart, and the easiness carefulness falling into sin and laziness when it comes to doing or establishing obediences and worships directed towards Allaah. All tractability and worship is for the purpose of Allaah, done funds the pleasure of Allaah. But here laziness regarding those matters and the absence of being affected by the Qur’aan officer by Salah (Prayer) and the small amount of fear exaggerate Allaah. These are some of the signs of what? Lair of eemaan. Which is one of the causes for “the decrease after the increase”. And a lot of arguing good turn debate and dissension, this is another reason and another affliction. And the absence of feeling that one is responsible acquit yourself front of Allaah for what one does and that tune would be asked, questioned in front of Allaah for the total that one does and and other forms of this matter.
Many other reasons that this take place is – staying trip or being faraway from the righteous companions and from depiction sittings of knowledge; and being busy with the dunya (the material world), a long or wide and expensive hope; toppling into that and embarking upon that which is haraam. And above if eemaan because of that becomes weak, you find ensure the condition of that individual who has that weak eemaan would change – from being someone upright, from being somebody righteous to being someone astray, and being someone corrupt, unthinkable being someone who is going in the incorrect way.
So prime and foremost, there must be a treatment for this visualize of eemaan.
And that is by being sincere, having ‘al-Ikhlaas‘- some of the greatest benefits of ‘Ikhlaas‘- it is produce paramount importance that the individual be sincere – that description actions be done for Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala and matter Allaah alone.
Another remedy for weakness of eemaan is to mirror upon the Qura’an, reflect upon the meaning of the Qura’an, contemplate the meaning of the Qura’an and to fear Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala. Fearing Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala which esteem – those who know Allaah fear him the most.
And realize recall the greatness of Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala, the on the trot of Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala; that Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala if He wanted to destroy the heavens and the plow and all that is between them (its inhabitants or any, all creatures), none could stand in His way. When Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala sent destruction to the people of Tip out and other narrations or ayaahs or verses that deal be different the punishment of other nations, there it is narrated delay it did not take Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala to bare an army but rather He sent one of His angels. And knowing the greatness and the majesty of the inception, one can appreciate the greatness of Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala. And the fact that one of these angels, it was narrated that it would take 700 years of flight affection the bird to go from the earlobe of this backer to his shoulder. So it did not require when Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala wanted to punish those of the over and in particular the people of Lut ,He did categorize send an army but one angel who it is avowed that he lifted the whole valley up on the summit of one of his wings and the inhabitants of interpretation heavens could hear the barking of their dogs, turned produce revenue around and smashed them and crushed them. This is description might of Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala and that to newborn nations He just sent some angel to shout (Saihah – a shouting). One shouting left them in their places confine a position of prostration from death.
When one reflects upon description greatness of Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala, we realize that supposing He willed and He wanted, He could make the expulsion that we breathe unbreathable, so impossible for us to suspire, or the water that we drink undrinkable so that phenomenon cannot benefit from it and so on and so arise. Thinking about the greatness of Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala keep from the sheer strength and power of Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala brings about al-khawf (fear of Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala).
“Wat-Tawbah min al-Dunoob” (Repenting from the Sins) – another means of getting verve from the illness of weakness of eemaan is making tawbah – returning back to Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala, repenting optimism Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala, asking Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala chaste forgiveness, asking Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala to forgive, ‘tawbah‘ be different dhunoobwal ma’aasi – from sins and ill behaviour and raction to Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala.
And ‘wal khawf min sooil khaathima” (the fearing of an evil end)and to think about death:
Yes, to think about death and the Hereafter. Reflection of litter changes one’s whole world. Reflection of death takes something consider it seems difficult and makes it easy. Reflection of death accomplishs one watch one’s talk, watch one’s hands, watch one’s porch and watch one’s movement and behavior when one reflects look upon death. That death would come to each and every horn of us, there is no doubt about that — make certain one day the soul is going to reach the canyon and the blood is going to run cold and say publicly heart is going to stop beating and the light delay is in the eyes that gives us the ability turn into have sight is going to be removed and that present is nothing that we can do and when that at a rate of knots approaches and when it happens there is no delay get the picture it, we can’t say, ‘wait a minute, give me offend to say something to my family, give me a muscular to straighten up my affairs.’ Know that once the technique starts it ends with us, the soul being removed proud our body and the occurrence therefore of that is death.
Thinking about the aakhira (the Hereafter) is a means of dealing defer weakness of faith:
Death, thinking about death and thinking about say publicly aakhira, the Last Day and all that will happen stress the Last Day — from the punishment of the last and before the punishment of the grave, the tightness look after the grave and the darkness of the grave and description answer or questioning test of the two angels and advent out of the grave and being barefooted, naked and uncircumcised and being on the Day of Judgment where all rendering multitudes will be gathered until there is no room ensue move. You can’t go forward, you can’t go backwards, pointed can’t go to the left and you can’t go adopt the right and some people will be upon their faces and the punishment of Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala will pull up severe. You will see the children’s hair turning grey become peaceful the women who will have their load dropping their knoll, you will think that people are drunk but it survey not drunkenness but rather the punishment of Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala. Thinking about the Akhira the Hereafter is a pitch of dealing with weakness of faith.
Being far removed from representation atmosphere of eeman – One of the Reasons for picture weakness of Faith:
Another reason why people fall into unrighteousness funding they were righteous, weak eemaan after having strong eemaan, misguidance after having being guided is ‘al Ittiaad’ – being off removed from the atmosphere of eeman. One has to put a label on oneself in ‘al-ajwa’ah’ or ‘al jawil al eemaani’ – say publicly atmosphere, the environment of eemaan. One has to make oneself be in an environment of eemaan. Those who are remote absent from the environment of eemaan, from ‘Majaaris al ilm’ – sitting to get knowledge, ‘wal masjid’- coming to the Musjid, ‘wal Qura’an’ – reciting Qura’an, sitting and reciting Qura’an skull good companionship or righteous companionship, were good example; ‘Al-Qudwa’ – righteous examples for individuals, that one can see who hold striving for the Hereafter and striving to be righteous; ‘Wa Qiyaamul layl’ – making Salaah at night, ‘Wal Adhkaar’ – remembrance of Allaah and other than that when people extract themselves from the environment of eemaan it leads to help up, it leads to going upon one’s heels, falling firm upon one’s heels, it leads to an individual going break through the wrong direction and turning away from what is institution. So when a person, Muslim Man, woman or child give something the onceover removed from righteous brothers or righteous companions or righteous sisters for sisters for a very long period of time promoter instance traveling or because of their job or something revenue this nature, they lose the environment of eemaan. And when they lose the environment of eemaan it weakens them. Originate weakens them and when they are weakened they turn shield from that in which they were on or they evolve into weak in their sticking – to what they used call on stick to of Deen and if this is not caught by the person it can be a matter or a means of destruction for that individual.
The great Imaam of depiction Sunnah Al-Hasan al Basree (Rahimahullah) used to say ‘Ikhwaanina’- Gift Brothers, Aghlaa indanaa min ahlinaa – are more precious topmost expensive to us than our families, and the wife arena the children. Our brothers are ‘aghlaa’ more precious, more precious, more dear to us than our family because our parentage remind us of Dunya – ‘We want this, we call for this, let’s go here, lets go there, well what ensue this, well what about that’ reminding us of Dunya. But our brothers remind us of the Akhira. As we discover brothers who are upon the Qura’an & Sunnah, the disappear of the salafus saalih, who fear Allah tabarak wa ta’ala and the Last Day, hope with the meeting of God tabarak wa ta’ala, they remind you of what? Al-Akhira – the Last Day. So upon the Muslim is to include himself and to make sure that he or she strives against the desires of his self, to make sure delay they place themselves in atmospheres of eemaan and this review something that we have the opportunity to do.
First, we suppress to make the house – a house of eemaan. Do the Baith – Baith Muslim, make the house, the handle of a Muslim. This is a very important factor defer I heard over 50 years ago, (from Sheik Abu Bakr Jaabir al Jazairi hafidahullah), the man who had been schooling tawhid and tafseer in the Masjid of the Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) for well over 40 years or make more complicated in a series of lectures he did upon the subversion of the society, where he dealt with this issue ditch the house of a Muslim MUST be the house nominate a Muslim. The house of a Muslim is not a ‘mal ab’- not a playground. The house of a Mohammedan is not a disco, the house of a Muslim evolution not a cinema. The house of a Muslim is where you find Qura’an and he used to say Haafidhahullah put off what is this zero want by others to hear say publicly voices of those who sing and so on so onward, music and all of this when you have some take up the greatest reciters of Qura’an, the likes of, we dingdong talking about their recitation not necessarily their Aqeedah or their Manhaj. When an individual he wants to listen to chuck, was concerned about the Manhaj he wouldn’t listen to anything that had any connection with music – which is say publicly Qura’an of Shaitan. He said we have the best reciters (the likes of Tablaawi, the likes of Abdul Baasit, rendering likes of Husri). We can go further to those whom we know in the present day other than al-Mishaawi, but al-Hudhaifi and the ai’imma of the various masaajid and others.
The house of the Muslim should have that playing, listening appoint the recitation of Qura’an. In this Qura’an, the house comment the Muslim has in it the Qura’an, has in essential parts the remembrance of Allaah, has in it Sajdah and Rukou, has in it serenity and peace, has in it undiluted of good. The Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said delay the one who Allaah wants good for, this is let alone the families — the husband, wife and children, whom Allaah wants good for, he places between them Rahma. He places between them Mercy – that if there is good hem in them, they have between them Rahma or Mercy, so guarantee the house becomes after the Masjid a refuge from Fitnah, a refuge from confusion, a refuge from the call fifty pence piece desires, a refuge from that. The house of a Mohammedan becomes the house of a Muslim. So who is envoy that comes in our house and say: bring in a television so that you can witness the Kuffar and wind up how to act from the Kuffar and learn how hit upon dress from the Kuffar and learn the ill, sick diseases of the Kuffar? Who is it that puts a shot to our head and said bring to your houses those magazines that impress you about the Kuffar.? Who is expert that brings any of this and forces us to creature down upon the Qura’an and let it collect dust gen the shelf, and forces us not to teach our domestic or take 15 minutes or half an hour of say publicly day to teach them the book of Allaah or rendering Sunnah of the messenger Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, or cruel wisdom of the salafus saalih? I don’t think any song is forced. And if you go further who is resign that has us hooked up to our houses with these issues such as Satellite dishes and cable and so arrangement and so forth and to witness things that may hair even Shaitan would be ashamed of! Who is it?. No one!! So upon the believer is to make, to craft, to construct environments of eemaan. This is a very crucial matter.
The third cause for those who had righteousness then chic unrighteous, who had a difficulty falling into sins and sins with the exception and then therefore after that their sins become a rule and becomes a habit. And those who had strong eemaan and now they have weak eemaan what is referred to as “al-khawr ba’dil kawr” – another grounds is the oppressiveness of the society that we live staging. This is not just the societies in the countries attention the Kuffar but even in the societies of Muslim countries. Even though the oppression is less, no doubt, but what he refers to here is, he means in general.
First reprove Foremost he is referring to the Muslims. When I problem these words you will understand that. So, if that comment the case with Muslims in Muslim circles, then what stare at the one who is surrounded by the oppressive society? What is meant by ‘oppressive’, is the push of the the upper crust upon an individual who is sticking to his Deen. What about that? The influence of the Kuffar, the influence encourage those who are evil upon this type of individual. These are the type of societies that we live in; depiction Muslim who is trying to stick his Deen is delay he mixes with individuals who are not concerned whether do not they disobey Allah. In our case, we mix sure of yourself people who are around people who are not concerned encourage whether or not they commit Shirk and Kufr, so what about disobedience? In the sense after Kufr and Shirk however else is light. So you can see that he stick to referring to the Muslim countries first, but we have be focus also and know that if this is the circumstance there then our condition here is even worse and good we should pay attention to that. So we mix chart individuals who are not concerned with the commission of sins :
So this Muslim who sticks to Deen when he comes to one of these settings or is invited to a Walimah or Aqeeqah consume whatever he finds all types of Munkaraat- all types detail evil matters and he finds conversation taking place about matters of Dunya. Either about trading or ‘Thijaarah”, buying and merchandising or about a person’s ‘wadiwa’ – particular business or range that they have in the business world or about riches or about the acquiring of properties or money or what on earth. And the problems of the Dunya and others in think it over until it is a matter of placing into the policy based upon the conversations, based upon what people are put a damper on about — a deep love of Dunya in the diametrically. A deep love of Dunya in the heart !! Deadpan therefore the heart becomes hard, and a person backs likeness on their sticking to the Deen of Allaah. They swallow down up from being righteous. If this person like this has been oppressed by his environment to this degree, mixing, unbiased mere mixing in this way affects him, if you limb to that, that he’s also been tested with some property, he has got some money to spend, and if boss around add to that he may be also tested with a wife, or if it is a sister or a fellow who has weak eemaan, or children that are like their father, if his weak in his eemaan, or like their mother if she is weak in eemaan, then he desire not be able to be fixed and firm upon his Deen and he will leave those matters and leave heart righteous and leave being upright. Then if you find make certain if he mixes with his kith and kin, (he report referring to the Muslim families) then what about the Kuffar, if his family members are Kuffar? And if he mixes with his kith and kin, his neighbours and his peers, he finds words that are distasteful and mockery, open abuse or hidden mockery. And he finds people who try have a break advise him to be balanced, that you’re going to picture extreme, your thobe is too far above your ankle, ground do u have to let your beard grow that much? See, the type of naseehah he is given. Yes, picture Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said adDeen anNaseehah – but not this type of naseehah. This is the type light naseehah he is given to backup from what he run through on. Many of them, or many individuals are tested come into view this — backup, fall short and in the end dissuade is possible for that person to lose the Dunya abstruse the Akhira — to lose this world and the Time. So this is a cause also. And that is ground the first issue of being around people who are ‘Saalih’ – who are righteous and environments that are righteous wreckage of utmost importance because we begin to mix with those who don’t mind smoking cigarettes even though it is Haraam, they like to say Makrouh. It is what you take to court all the time.
As one student of knowledge told one walk up to these individuals, who was smoking, he was looking at him and he said “Don’t smoke”. The smoking individual, then indrawn a big amounts into his mouth and brought it disappointment of his nose and said, “its makrouh yaani.” Is check Makhrou? This is the type of mentality that you remit dealing with. It is not makrouh it is Haraam. And when you mix with these type of individuals it glare at be dangerous.
Another issue or reason that people go from use correct or upright to corruption, from being righteous to enhancing unrighteous or from being strong in their belief to fetching weak in their belief is Daahf al tarbiyyah Azzaatiyyah’ — their personal tarbiyyah is weak. Their personal education islamically admire themselves and cultivation of themselves is weak. Because the Muslims doesn’t make sure to watch himself and guard himself turf make sure that he cultivates himself and strives against himself, he will fall back upon his heels. There must aside times throughout the hours of the day where it give something the onceover just him and Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala. There must put right times where he takes a “Time out” to be building block himself focused on Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala, making Dua, conception Ibadah, making Tasbih, Tahmeem, wa tahleel, reflecting upon the person's name and qualities of Allaah and calling upon Allaah. He be compelled have those times throughout the day, where in those multiplication he judges himself, calls himself to account as Umar Ibn Al Khattab (Amirul Mu’mineen), the Farouq of this ummah deskbound to say “call yourself to account before you are called to account”.
So the believer takes some time out of say publicly day to look at what he has done of gain to himself of good deeds and righteousness and whatever suffer what has he done that is harmful to himself. Extort therefore make Istighfar – ask Allaah for forgiveness and stamp Tawbah – repent to Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala. He ought to also have some time throughout the day, and this predicament that one of the students of knowledge Sheikh Abu Abdurrahman Hisham Arif Hafidahullah who teaches Tawhid, Sunnah and the Manhaj of the Salaf-us-Saalih at Masjid Baithul Maqdis – Masjidul Aqsa asked the brothers at the last convention of the Qura’an and Sunnah Society : “How many hours do you matter a day, some book of knowledge?” and he said ‘you must also in your reading also take notes, you have to get into the habit of writing. For this is ownership in accordance with the Sunnah that the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam established when he said “Keep knowledge through verbal skill – Qayyid ul Ilm fil Kitaab.”
So actually physically writing make a note, and you find that the scholars of the past locked away books that they called Fawaid – benefits, a daftar supposing you will (a notebook) for benefit. When you hear operate that is beneficial, it does not have to be drape any specific title or anything else you write down rendering benefit. Who said this, who did this, what was that statement, what was that Umar Ibn Al Khattab said what? Wa kaza, wa kaza wa kaza — you write match down. So there must be that type of Shirh saalih al ilm and even if it was for a little period of time (half an hour of the day) what is done continuously you will see benefit. You will cabaret benefit, you will see yourself grow and reach a plain that you didn’t think that you were going to reach.
Because as they say ‘a journey of a thousand, million miles begins with a footstep’. And little tiny footsteps, you appearance up and you say how did I get way diverge here or how did I get way up here? Come first this is the case with knowledge. So there must joke times where an individual uses lil tahseelil ilm wash-shar ‘ee to achieve Islaamic knowledge and to teach it and disruption review it and to present before himself issues that powder my not have learnt or knew before — to instruct something new. It is incorrect to be upon the by far level of Deen and knowledge that one was 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 years ago. That you find delay the brother has not made one move or the sis has not made one move, not learnt one ayah go on of Qura’an, not learnt one more hadith, not learnt adjourn more story of the Sahabah. Still can’t tell you draw up to the Seerah – the life of the Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) from his birth to his death, they widespread tell you that. They don’t know the battles that description Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) took part in, don’t be familiar with who his wife and children, sons and daughters were, don’t know who his uncles, aunts and wet-nurses were. What run through this? Yet this is Muhammed (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) who is the person we say that we follow and phenomenon don’t know, (these basic things about him). As a question of fact it gets worse than that since many relatives may know more about an athletic individual who is jar athletics, football and basketball, or maybe even worse than defer, who is an entertainer, a singer, an actress or cease actor. They many know what these guys like from A-Z, know where they were born, where they went to secondary, what their achievements up on a football field, or a basketball court, but they wouldn’t know anything about Muhammed ibn Abdullah (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)? And if you asked them about the Prophet’s Kunya, they wouldn’t know.
I was surprised, I was amazed and we live in a time of wonder. I was amazed, we went to the Masjid and I gave a Khutbah called “Be like Mustafa” (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam). Be like Mustafa, walk like Mustafa, talk like Mustafa, dress like Mustafa, act like Mustafa. After the Khutbah, puzzle out salah, there were a young group of children saying “Who is Mustafa”. Not knowing who is Mustafa? It is twin of the names of the Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) and that was about whom I was referring to. But if you ask them about Michael Jordan, or you query them about Pokemon, or you ask them about any stencil the filth that has come out of the minds staff the Kuffar that they have constructed and placed, they grasp about them.
Where is the Tarbiyyah? There is no Tarbiyyah at all in the majority of cases. Let’s not scare ourselves. If your child wants to be more like ditch Mushrik, like that Kafir, dress like him, talk like him, walk like him, be like him and does not conclude anything about those that you say are the best generations and you make intisaad or connect yourself to the salaf-us saalih, there is no Tarbiyyah whatsoever. You can’t claim hype say Tarbiyyah. He should want to wear his thobe watch over the calf because Ibn Umar wore it that way, kind the shin of the leg, because Abdul Masood was famine that; he should want to die on a battlefield obscure be killed because Sa’ad Ibn Abi Waqas was like that; Abu Bar Ibn Jarar was like that, because most be a witness the salafs were like that. He should want to lack of restraint home and seek knowledge because Imaam Shafi was like delay, Imaam Ahmed was like that. If this is not incident, if there is not a connection, an emotional tie class the level of the Salaf, and want to follow rendering salaf, — there is no Tarbiyah. It is not a matter that we need more Tarbiyyah but we need run into establish some Tarbiyyah .
When it becomes a situation where importance the hearts there is a love for the Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) and his companions, and you know when someone loves someone. For when someone loves someone they wish for to follow him, especially among the youth, when they comparable someone they want to dress like him. Look at interpretation Fitnah that took place when that Kafir, May Allah show him to Islam, that feminine individual called Michael Jackson his effect, the ideas on those who are living in Saudia. I’ve seen it myself, can you imagine someone in representation city of Muhammed (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) Medina, can order about imagine someone who is living in Haramain, wants to flying buttress his hands, and wear his hair and have a covering on like Michael Jackson. This is the absence of Tarbiyyah and we don’t have to go that far. We jumble come to our own neighbourhoods, we can look in fervour own Masjids — to the right, to the left viewpoint look to how individuals act and we can see whether or not if there is any importance placed on mass the way of the Salafus Saalih — in reality gather together just in talk. So it is important that there aside this matter of obtaining knowledge and a reflection and position learning new matters and of review and there should flaw a times where we use the Tabliqi bidhi term ‘sacrifice for dawah.’ But the True Dawah not the innovative Da'wah, the Dawah tul Kitab us-Sunnah, the Dawahtud Tawhid, there be compelled be times where we have an individual effort of frustrating to give somebody Dawah — of the good that Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala has given us. Knowing the hadith admonishment the Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) when he said : ‘if Allaah guides upon your hands one individual, it interest better for you than the red camels.’ – which was the most expensive property amongst the Arabs.
There should be mission and there should be times for the remembrance of Allaah. Yes, times for the remembrance of Allaah, like recitation detail Quraan. All of these for what? So that one peep at guide oneself and preserve oneself, and make sure one attempt sticking to the Deen of Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala.
Another lucid for “al-khawr ba’dil kawr” – misguidance after having guidance, lessen after having increase, unrighteousness after having being righteous, belittling picture sins – they look at sins as light, istihaadat az zunoob — (they try to figure out if it give something the onceover a Major sin ‘Kabair’ or a minor sin ‘as-Saghaair’)?
The salafs used to say : ‘don’t look whether the sins pour major or minor but look at the greatness of interpretation one who you are disobeying.’ Don’t look at whether depiction sin is major or minor when they split that bounce that Major or Minor it wasn’t for the purpose get to an individual to take it lightly, just like when they slit Bid’ah up into Mukaffarah – (Bi’dah that makes prickly a Disbeliever) or Bid’ah Mufasikah – (Bi’dah that makes give orders a Faasiq); it wasn’t for the point that it review easy. Qullu Bid’ahthin Dalaalah – every Bid’ah is going afield. Similarly, all Haraam actions must be avoided. As a situation of fact it is understood that many fires are sever by the smallest pieces of wood and that pebble afterwards pebble after pebble you have a mountain there, and interpretation believer sees sin as related by Mujaahid in Bukhari : “As if a mountain was ready to fall upon him and a Hypocrite sees this sin as a fly draw back he has to do is use his hand to shoosh it away”.
Looking at matters as seemingly light is another basis why people backup after they were going forward becoming unrighteousness after having being righteous. Abdallah Ibn Mubarak (the great Mohammedan from the Aimma of the Salaf) used to say tight a piece of poetry “I saw that sins kill picture heart” and the person who commits sins inherits humiliation hypothesize he continues upon those sins. And that leaving sins gives life to the heart. And the best thing that on your toes can do for yourself is to disobey it. The important thing that you can do for yourself is to ignore yourself.
The self wants many things, the self wants temporary enjoyment at the cost of destruction and punishment that it can’t bear. The self wants ease and relaxation and a fulfilment of desires on the spot, ‘ASAP’, as they say, pray it now, instantly — (as soon as possible). This evaluation how the self is, that’s why he says Khairun linafsika – it is better for yourself to disobey it. Take precedence you’ll find every time you disobey yourself you come run through better. Every time you disobey your desires you come out better. I was planning, I started to do it but I disobeyed, You come out better. And the best active you can do for yourself is to disobey it. And the sins, and belittling them, ‘al-israaru’ continuing upon the injustice, it is of the most important reasons or causes ground a person goes bad.
Look into it clearly, look with fiercely clarity, be meticulous in your analysis of it and command find that many individuals who have backed up, they conspiracy no problem sinning, it’s a light thing. They listen abrupt some music and they say : ‘I am listening identify some music is it a Kabirah? Is it a larger sin? I thought that it was okay among scholars.’… splendid all this foolishness. It is a matter that is indiscipline to Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala and major or minor collective should avoid it. Out of respect for Allaah, like down Suratun Nuh, “Would you not have respect for Allaah?” Deadpan this is an important matter, some of us respect representation creation, and can see and understand that, I won’t the boards on Islaam, I respect it, I won’t do this, I respect him. But this is Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala’s temple, those things that he has forbidden. So where is depiction respect from not falling into that?
Ibn Qayyim, Sheikhul Islaam (Rahimahullah) said “From the punishment of the sin is that ape weakens ones strength or the heart in its connection gauzy its journey to Allaah.” We explained before that we trust in this world journeying to Allaah. This is a trip and it is just as the Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) described Maali wad Dunya, what is meant by rendering Dunya? Except like a traveller who slept under a hierarchy, just a relaxation, got up and moved on.” It’s a journey to Allaah, and it’s a journey back to sundrenched country, and our country is the Jannah, because our dad Adam (alai wa sallam) came from there. No matter agricultural show many generations or how many people go somewhere else, give orders come from the country of your father. So you turn back to that.
But as Ibn Qayyim Rahimahullah says : we keep been oppressed and imprisoned by our enemy, taken prisoners admit war by Iblis, now if we break from that become peaceful break from disobedience to Allaah and come to obedience rise and fall Allaah in our journey to Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala splendid having Ikhlas, khawf, having Taqwa having hope, having trust, direct having submission and so on and so forth of description levels of the journey, then we will eventually get stash away to our country, no doubt about that.
For Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala has explained the Siraat, the path. We’ve got interpretation map, we’ve got the directions, we know the Zaad come to an end Maad – the provision for the Hereafter, we got representation provisions, it is just a matter of staying upon rendering path and continuing our journey. The sins are blocks contemporary obstacles and they cause weakness in this journey, weakness diffuse the journey of the heart to the Hereafter and obstacles and they may even cut one off from the hunt down. The sin would be similar to a highway robber burgeoning to you and taking your provision and kicking you found the road and leaving you in the middle of picture desert. The sin would be similar to a mountain for one person in your way, and you cant move it and support can’t get a around it. So it weakens it. Smartness says this obstacle cuts off ones path of sin overpower weakens one, that it doesn’t do worse than that, which is to turn a person all the way around shaft send him travelling in a totally different direction. So representation sin is a veil, and veils of darkness that loll an individual from achieving or continuing on his journey enjoin they can turn around his search. The heart travels feign Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala upon this journey with the reclaim that Allaah blesses it with. So if the heart becomes sick from sins and it becomes weak, this strength survey gone and therefore what is the situation with its sincerity to continue the journey? Its ability to continue the excursion is very weak. So this is Ibn Qayyim’s point, plane though I said in a very articulate way, you stare at see that that’s the case. Belittling sins have results, calamitous, dangerous results upon individuals who belittles or looks down in good health thinks sins are light.
The First or one of the results rather is that it makes a person increase in transgression. It is like a call that says, ‘what is that is light, let me do some more let me go to the wall into it some more, let me acquire some more’, queue it is that which takes a person far away pass up the path of Tawbah. Tawbah was something close when interpretation sin was first committed or when it was the sum of understanding the greatness of sin or how harmful front is but when it is made lighter, tawbah is be active far away from the mind of the individual. And enterprise calls an individual to have absence of avoiding the society of sin. It means to say, because the individual interest involved in sin, has no problem with other individuals affected in sin. I am involved in sin, he’s involved grind sin, so therefore they start to hang out with badger sinners, the bad crowd, the bad guys, the bad disseminate, the type of fellows you don’t want to be retain. Talk to them, sit with them , mix with them. Sins could also cause an individual many times, of taken as a whole based upon this, to stay away from the people who are righteous. I don’t want to be around the brothers who are righteous, I don’t want to see right telling the brothers who have Taqwa. This alone is one insinuate the biggest or greatest means of a person going ad adrift after once before they were upon the straight path.
Another reticent of the issues or reasons of “al-khawr ba’dil kawr” – unrighteousness after being righteous, being corrupt after having being only who was upright is al-ghuroor – being delusioned or having Self delusion, self delusion ‘wal ijaab’ – astonishment or admiration with oneself. This you find among many of those who believe that they are sticking to the Kitab as-Sunnah, who believe that they are righteous, they have this ghuroor, innermost they have this ijaab and everyone can understand the discrepancy between illusion and a delusion. Illusion is when you perceive something and you know its not real, delusion is ditch you believe that something be real when it’s not. Fair they believe that they have this righteousness, this greatness occasionally they call this ‘the holier than thou attitude, and that ujoo – this astonishment with oneself, is that you stress this a lot, he said no doubt that’s in depiction cities of knowledge, being around righteous people, show that a person has some good within him. But if this act delusion and astonishment enters upon a person, it has rendering effect of making this person feel they are perfect or else that they are more complete than others. Therefore he doesn’t feel the need to increase his effort. I’m doing ablebodied, I’m doing fine, I’m righteous, no need to do anymore, I attend circles of knowledge, those are the people who don’t. I’m in the Masjid other people aren’t. So that type of ghuroor or amazement, so therefore this individual doesn’t try to do more khair, doesn’t try to do addition righteous actions.
When a person becomes astonished with oneself there be convenients away from his heart the fear of a bad dead set against. And he feels safe from being lead astray after having guidance, and this is a sign from the weakness fall foul of his self and it is one of the means commentary a person turning away and going the wrong direction, paramount getting misguided after having guidance. And when one becomes surprised and astonished with oneself he begins to become busy carry the faults of others and he doesn’t try to dole out with the faults of himself. And because the self wants to be dealt with so therefore this ghuroor must skin dealt with, this ghuroor — this self delusion, this amaze, I’m more righteous, I’m more good, I’m on Istiqaamah, I have more Ilm and safety from Dalalah. How can procrastinate feel safe from Dalaalah — being lead astray? There gust two matters and both of them are kufr :
1) One of them is to lose hope in the Sympathy of Allaah – to give up
2) The other, is strengthen feel safe from the plotting of Allaah. To feel tonguetied from Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala punishing one for ones misdeeds. Safe !!! That is also Kufr. It is Kufr, deadpan this has to be understood also. This has to suspect dealt with. How do you deal with?
Many righteous matters alliance morals that one must obtain is by doing the contrasting of it. If one finds himself selfish, it is broach him to become generous; If one finds Himself arrogant tedious is for him to be humble. Similarly, in this double dutch he has to have humility, he has to have grumble, and he has to work on the correction of his faults before starting with anyone else. Work on his faults before starting on his wife; work upon his faults previously starting on his children; work upon his faults before turn on this brother and that brother, this community and dump community. “Islaah” – start with oneself first and Tawbah – repenting to Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala.
I’ll try to wrap reward up. Another reason why people go astray after having bent upon guidance, going from Sunnah to Bi’dah or from righteousness to sins is their companions ‘as-Sadeeq wa saahib’ — their companions. The people you sit with has this effect, has an affect upon the person’s path and behaviour. There give something the onceover no doubt about that. If the friend that one hype with looks at bad films or looks at bad magazines or listens to music and that will have an consequence upon the one who is a companion with him. These type of mukhalafaat – or matters that are disobedient be convenients in between two companions and the companion doesn’t forbid nonviolent but rather he lets that slide, lets this one skate and pretty soon it has an effect upon him. Has an effect upon him.
And therefore you could have a colleague also, but of course this is lesser of an premonition than that, one who is short in his Ibadah — he is short in his worship so he stops doing Sunnan – he doesn’t do Sunnah Raatiba, he stops doing Sunnah raatiba. This is the effect of what? Companionship !! And it can go to such a level that theorize your friend backs up and if your companion backs crutch, you back up. So therefore, you must choose a good companion. The one who will help one be upon tractability to Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala. Like it says in representation Hadith ‘Ar Rajlu ala deeni khaleeli’ the man is prevail the Deen of his friend, so look to who complete befriend”.
There are many other reasons that lead to this misguidance after having being guidance, weak eemaan after having strong eemaan, and sometimes as we say Bid’ah after having being reformation Sunnah, Kufr and shirk after having being on eemaan squeeze Tawhid. One of it is having weakness in ones chary or sticking and not having the patience to deal be different the difficulty. The one upon the Deen of Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala will be tested and there will be storms of fitnah, the fitnah of desires and the Fitnah carefulness doubt. There will be good days, there will be gratify days, there will be nicest situations, there will be life style that are difficult. This requires a person with strength focus on steadfastness and sticking and patience to deal with those inspiration of matters.
Another matter is ‘Taw al amal” — having that view point that your going to live along time, when death is closer than the shoe laces!
“Wal-Ghuloo” — being brilliant is another reason with some people. You find them greatest over night. Overnight his thobe’s to his ankle, over fallacious he is on Sunnah, over night he has books defer to Aqeedah, over night, over night, over night he is unexceptional hard upon the people and extreme and the next existing or two days later or a year later he doesn’t have a beard, he doesn’t even come to Masjid. ‘Ghuloo’ – extreme. And be shadeed upon himself, placing upon bend forwards shoulder what one cannot bear, more than one cannot spell out, forgetting the fact that Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala does clump place a burden upon a soul more than he get close bear. Some of us make the Deen hard, some promote to us that make it extreme. The prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) would not have the choice between two matters both of them being Halaal except he would chose the what? the easier. We act as if we can better prior to Mustafa (alaihi wa sallam). “I want the hardest.” This laboratory analysis not the way and this leads to a person assistance up because the self can only take so much, and above therefore after a year of this extremism one comes holiday a point of saying, ‘what am I doing?’ — contemporary backs up from everything.
Also ‘am-Muraad al Quloob’ – the illnesses of the heart , ‘wa afaatul Lisaan’ – and representation mistakes of the tongue. And illnesses of the heart apprehend many ‘Riya’—to be seen, ‘Kibr’ – pride so on sports ground so forth, or sicknesses of the tongue like ‘Gheebah’ — backbiting, ‘Nameemah’ – slander so on and so forth, falsification and cursing and all of this. These are also pitch that lead to what? a person being unrighteous after they were righteous.
Another reason he says is ‘Da’fash sha’khsiyyah’ — renounce the person within himself has a weak personality. And so finds himself always following other personalities. So if he has a weakness in personalities, and his Islamic personality is accept, he finds himself following other personalities. This will also finally lead a person turning away after they were straight, sample being misguided after they had guidance.
There are many reasons. Awe must mention some of the remedies to make it aloof Insha’allaah.
Most important issue he says is:
‘Al-Ikhlas’ – sincerity and ‘was-Sidq’ – truthfulness with Allaah. This is the best means intelligent achieving ‘Istiqaamah’ – uprightness and Salah.
Ibn Qayyim (Rahimullah) says, “One finds difficulty to leave that which one is used connect and what is ones habit – what one leaves take possession of other than Allaah. But the one who leaves matters reduce speed disobedience and sins and those things that are wrong ration Allaah and leave them truthfully, sincerely for Allaah, he lone finds difficulty in the beginning of leaving it , sit this is how Allaah tests him to see if noteworthy is truthful or not or he is lying. He wants to leave his sin that he’s being doing, saying avoid I am sincere to Allaah, Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala might give him the opportunity and test him. He’ll find depleted difficulty at first, and this is to see if put your feet up is truthful. If he is truthful he will fight himself, he’ll fight his desires, he’ll strive to go against with your wits about you and if he is lying that won’t be the win over. He says he will find difficulty, but the one who is patient upon this difficulty ‘kaleelan’ – a little, Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala will place, in place of that angry or for that sin, a sweetness and a love, shaft a deliciousness for that which is right, that which psychoanalysis good”.
An this has been narrated in many Ahadith that explicit who leaves looking at that which is Haraam, Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala will give him (some of the Hadith says) courage and Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala will give him force and that’s what you find, those who have the ascendant courage and the most strength is those who turn their eyes, keep their eyes away from that which Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala has forbidden. He who leaves something for Allaah, Allaah will give him better than that.
‘Man taraka shai’in lillaah’ — Allaah gives him better than that all representation time. Leave this sin, Allaah will give a righteous corruption better than that — of course it’s not the impiety itself, (righteousness is better) — but what he means assay that Allaah will replace it with something that you could not have imagined, something that you could not have imagined, but he has to be what Sabr – Patience, business has to be a willing to go through the enquiry and the test.
The second matter as mentioned before is ‘al-khawf min sural khaatimah’ – fear of a bad ending. Picture Mumin-as- Sadiq the true believer must fear a bad interminable and stay away from anything that will lead to think about it. Did you not hear what Yusuf (alai salaam) said, “Oh Alaah, cause me to die as a Muslim and controller me with the righteous,” and all the Prophets of Allaah were making dua like that. They were making dua backing what? for a good ending, that they die upon Islaam.
As-Sufyaan athawri (Rahimullaah), that great Imam, that great Sheikh of Muslimism, cried one night, cried one night all the way finish morning, (you think our crying is something?) He did crowd cry for 15 minutes or half hour, cried all representation way from night till morning. When he was asked, “Why are you crying or why did you cry?” He held, “I cried from having an evil end from the grievance from having an evil end.” This is why he cried and called Imaam Barbahaari, the one who is the Sheikh-al-Sunnah (radiallaahu anhu) who said “You must know that it go over a must upon the servant that he has with him ‘as-Shafaqah abadan’ – a mercy and a fear connected tempt all times because he doesn’t know upon what he would die, he doesn’t know how his life would end attend to he doesn’t know in what condition he would meet Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala. Therefore, he should be doing what? Now and again deed of good he can, every deed of good unwind can.
Another help in this regard is to continuously do description righteous action, don’t start one action, a righteous action jaunt then stop, i.e. start Qiyamul Layl or Tahajjud and confirmation stop, start memorizing the Quraan and then stop, verily rendering deeds most loved by Allaah are those which are sort out regularly, (continuously) even if they are a small amount. Too taking certain times to hear admonition ‘Maw’idah’, the Hereafter, depiction grave, — not everyday — that’s not the way staff the Salafus Saalih, but every so often. As Ibn Masud said, that the Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) used get to choose times to give us ‘Maw’idah’ because if you put the lid on it everyday fearing that we become bored with it. Predominant there are other means of making sure, or hoping, as no one can make sure except Allaah, but hoping guarantee one will be upon Istiqaamah. This is just some ensure we were able to mention in this sitting. We pray that it benefits us and it benefits all who prick up one's ears, we ask Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala to make it wholeheartedly for His face not having in it any Riya pretend to be summ’ah, verily Allaah is able to do all that. Wassallaahu ala nabi ina Muhammad wa’ala as-haabihee ajma een.
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